artificial intelligence
A Preliminary Poetics
The builder of Façade, an "interactive story world," Michael Mateas offers both a poetics and a neo-Aristotelian project (for interactive drama and games).
From Work to Play (sidebar)
Sidebar images, "From Work to Play: Molecular Culture in the Time of Deadly Games."
Critical Simulation
Theories of performance, training, and psychology explain simulation - or do they? - in the third section of First Person.
Phoebe Sengers responds
Phoebe Sengers praises the optimistic, self-aware conversation mapped by Warren Sack and First Person.